People are power : the mass uprising and the maverick coalition -- Segregation is an economic problem : black workers win the right to vote -- Forcing us together in self-defense : the Cold War, the black vote and the liberal movement -- Minorities combine : G.J. Sutton, Albert Peña, and the Democrats of Texas -- Unions are needed so desperately here : the rebirth of the labor movement and the seeds of the Bexar coalition -- We shall be heard : rights in black and brown from the sit-ins to Viva Kennedy -- Trying to reach substantially unanimous agreement : the "Latin vote" and the first democratic coalition -- Separating the wheat from the chaff : intra-racial divides beget inter-racial unity -- They'll never separate us again : the multiracial democratic coalition on the march -- New power for the Texas minorities : winning the battles, losing the war.